Comment by dkarp

The build issue is because musl wheels don't exist, so installing with pip takes forever.

If you just need pandas, then you can install it with apk along with many other packages and it'll be much quicker: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?page=1&branch=edge&nam...

Alpine are doing what they can, by maintaining common python packages on apk. It is pip that is tied to glibc